A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

A federal appeals court ruled that Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man who was sentenced to death ...

A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.

Now 55 years old, Barbour isn’t the only person who remains in Alabama’s prison system despite evidence suggesting he didn’t ...

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder of Montgomery County Sheriff’s ...

Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of ...

The Monday ruling from a three-judge panel means Michael Sockwell, 62, is eligible for a retrial. He was convicted of killing ...

A woman charged in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont wants to delay the government’s decision on whether to ...

A Decatur man charged with capital murder seeks protection from the death penalty even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to reexamine, in an appeal by the state of Alabama, guidelines on when ...

Alabama is preparing to execute a man with nitrogen gas for the 1988 beating death of a woman. Gregory Hunt is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday at a south Alabama prison. Hunt was convicted ...